Re: Ogham (was RE: What is this list? -- 2nd installment)

Marco Cimarosti wrote:

>
> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> > (...) However, your characters are far, far too similar in
> > appearance to each other to constitute a practical script.
> > (That's the other main objection to the winning entry for
> > Shaw Alphabet, too.)
>
> The shapes of Doug's scripts reminds me of Ogham, somehow.
>
> Was Ogham very difficult to read because of its uniformity?

Very much so!

> BTW, did it exist a literature in Ogham (I mean books, poems, etc.), or is
> it only attested in short stone inscriptions?

There was nothing you could call a "literature" -- I believe Damian
McManus gives the longest Ogham inscription in his article in *The
World's Writing Systems*.

There is just a handful of graffiti in books; it was essentially used
for nothing but memorials on the edges of standing stones.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...